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Omotic
Geographic distribution
Ethiopia, Sudan
Native speakers
7.9 million
Linguistic classification
Afro-Asiatic
Omotic
Subdivisions
North Omotic
South Omotic
ISO 639-5
omv
Glottolog
None
Omotic languages:
South Omotic languages:
Aroid languages
North Omotic languages:
Mao
Dizoid
Gonga (Kefoid)
Yemsa
Bench (Gimira)
Chara
Ometo
Neighboring languages:
Nilo-Saharan
Afroasiatic
The Omotic languages are a group of languages spoken in southwestern Ethiopia, in the Omo River region and southeastern Sudan in Blue Nile State. The Geʽez script is used to write some of the Omotic languages, the Latin script for some others. They are fairly agglutinative and have complex tonal systems (for example, the Bench language). The languages have around 7.9 million speakers.[1]
The group is generally classified as belonging to the Afroasiatic language family, but this is disputed by some.
Four separate "Omotic" groups are accepted by Glottolog 4.0 and Güldemann (2018): North Omotic, Dizoid (Maji), Mao, and Aroid ("South Omotic").[2]
^"Omotic languages". Ethnologue. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
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